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The expression of cytokine receptors has a crucial role in many cellular processes. Recent studies reported that changes of receptor expression could control the action of mediators on target cells. The initiation of different signaling pathways and, therefore, specific effects on cells, depends on certain components forming the cytokine-receptor complex.

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Background: Since dendritic cells (DC) are involved in the development of autoimmune inflammation, researchers consider DC both as target cells for specific therapy of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and as candidate cells for the development of cell-based methods to treat autoimmune diseases. The development of treatment strategies requires comprehensive research into the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of DC subtypes both ex vivo from RA patients and in vitro, to determine the possibility of inducing functionally mature DC in RA.

Objective: To study the phenotypic and functional properties of myeloid (mDC) and plasmacytoid (pDC) DC isolated from the peripheral blood of patients with RA and induced in vitro.

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